Roger Ailes shared stories about his final days at Fox News and relationship with News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch with close friend Michael Wolff in the months before his death.

Wolff is now sharing some of those stories in an article for The Hollywood Reporter, including a shocking admission about how Murdoch wanted to see coverage of the presidential race play out on the network.

'Murdoch instructed Ailes to tilt to anyone but Trump, Ailes confided to me before he was fired, even Hillary,' reveals Wolff.

There was no real need to worry about that however, as Ailes learned he was out at the network on the same day that Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president.

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What the HIL!: Rupert Murdoch asked Roger Ailes to 'tilt to anyone but Trump,' including Hillary Clinton, before he was fired from Fox News (Murdoch and Ailes above in 2007)

Showdown: Ailes learned he was out at the network on the same day that Trump accepted the Republican nomination (Trump and Clinton above in October)

Wolff writes that he began speaking with Ailes soon after he left Fox News, with the men meeting in person initially at his home in New Jersey and later speaking by phone when Ailes and his wife Elizabeth moved down to Palm Beach, where they purchased a $36 million mansion.

'This was, of course, a window into the fleetingness of power,' writes Wolff.

'The single most influential person in conservative politics one day, and the next, waiting for the phone to ring.'

Wolff also confirms the much widely-held belief that in the end it was a battle between Ailes and Murdoch's two sons, Lachlan and James.

Ailes had the upper-hand in their dealings for years according to Wolff, and once said of the Murdoch's two heirs: 'I make the money; they spend it.'

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That all changed however after Gretchen Carlson filed her sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes and the network.

Murdoch came from his honeymoon with Hall and, when Lachlan and James voiced their belief that Ailes had to go, he 'had to side with his sons.'

This later caused a bit of difficulty however for Murdoch when Trump did win the race, and he had to quickly make amends with the man he had been less than kind about during the campaign.

'After the election, a confounded Murdoch had to call on his ex-wife Wendi's friends, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, to broker a rapprochement with the disreputable Donald,' writes Wolff.

He then adds: 'Now, to Trump's great satisfaction, a humbled Murdoch is a constant caller.'

Prior to his termination, Ailes dismissed Murdoch's demands and criticisms according to Wolff, who wrote:' Ailes, for his part, characterized Murdoch's periodic efforts at interference as similar to Nixon's instructions to bomb this or that country — best ignored.'

Burn: Ailes also had a tumultuous relationship with Murdoch's sons Lachlan and James, saying of the heirs: 'I make the money; they spend it' (Ailes and James above in 2010)

Ailes was preparing to head back to New York City and speak about a return to media industry when he fell and struck his head in May, dying within a week.

Wolff recalls their final conversation one day before that fall to close out his piece.

'It's strange to be at home with nothing to do but just to see how right you were. The liberals really have had no idea what was going on,' said Ailes.

Wolff's story appears in The Hollywood Reporter

'But the lesson is, you probably don't want to be as right as I've been. That's not going to make you a lot of friends.'

Ailes' silence after his firing meanwhile was attributed to his payout according to Wolff, which was a 'slow-drip' so that the Murdochs 'were able to enforce his silence as they pursued their plan to erase his place in their corporate history.'

Ailes began working with Trump after stepping down as CEO of Fox News over the summer, but that was short lived and Ailes left just before the election.

Trump defended Ailes after multiple women came forward accusing him of sexual harassment at the time, saying: 'He’s such a great guy. Roger is, I mean, what he’s done on television, is in the history of television, he’s got to be placed in the top three, or four or five.

'And that includes the founding of the major networks. So, it’s too bad.'

Trump then added about the alleged harassment: 'I’m sure it was friendly.'